Why police arrested an SUV driver in Delhi IAS coaching centre incident

Delhi Police has arrested seven persons, including an SUV driver, in connection with the deaths of three students in a basement flooding at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar in the national capital. But why have police arrested the SUV driver?

DCP (Central) M Harshvardhan has said that the SUV driver was arrested based on a video that was widely shared on social media platforms. The video showed the accused passing by the coaching institute in his vehicle at a very high speed which broke the gate of the IAS coaching center and led the water following inside. The police identified the driver and the vehicle through the CCTV footage of the area. 

"Negligence has been established on the part of the arrested driver, who has been arrested in the Old Rajender Nagar case. He was driving the vehicle very fast, due to which the gate of the coaching centre broke. Before he hit the building gate, a street vendor had tried to stop him," the DCP said.

According to the police, the flow of water towards the institute became faster after the vehicle passed by, flooding its premises. "At the beginning of the video, the gate of the coaching institute was fine, but after the car passed, it broke and fell down. The accused driver has no connection with the coaching owner or the building owner," DCP Harshvardhan said.

Police have arrested the driver of this black SUV for driving on the flooded road, which caused a gush of water to break through the Rau's IAS gate, a gate that was already porous and wasn't stopping any water.

This is some joke Next, they'll arrest the car manufacturer. pic.twitter.com/0C8OjJ3QP5

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Shreya Yadav from Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Nevin Dalwin from Kerala died after the basement of the building housing Rau's Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar flooded due to rain. Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of three civil services aspirants.

(With inputs from ANI)